Gate-hanger



(No Model.)

' J.'WADLEIGH GATE HANGER. 1

No. 257,111. Patented Apr.25, 1882.

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F B G HEM \NWNEEBEE Mwwm UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH WADLEIGH, OF HERSGHER, ILLINOIS.

GATE-HANGER SPECIFICATION 'forming' part of Letters Patent No. 257,111, dated April 25, 1882, Application filed January 3, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH WADLEIGH, of Herschel, in the county of Kankakee, in the State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sliding and Swinging Gate Hangers, of which thefollowingis a specification, relerence being bad to the-accompanying drawings and letters marked thereon, illustrating the invention, in which-.

Figure 1 is an elevation of a gate supported on my improved hanger; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the hanger removed from the gate and gate-post. Fig. 3 shows the hanger in horizontal section on line as, Fig. 2.

.The object is to provide an iron hanger for sliding and swinging gates which shall be bothcheap and strong and made at the smallest cost.

The novelty consists in two bars of halfround iron of suitable strength and length, and each piece bent at both ends in the form of a double elbow, whereby when the flat parts of the extreme ends of the bars are welded together there will be formed round pivots for the ban gerto turn on, and room enough between the bars to receive the rollers on which the gate moves, as the whole is hereinafter fully described and shown. Two bars, A, of haltround iron (preferably about one and one-half inch wide) are bent at each end, as shown at B U, in the form of double elbows, after which the extreme ends D, which are parallel to the main bars A A, are welded together, so as to preserve their half-round form, the result of which is to form a round pivot at each end of the hanger without further labor, and suitable for the hanger to turn on. The bars are then drilled to receive the pivots s, which support the ordinary anti-friction rollers, E E, for running the gate back and forth on.

I do not claim that any other function is performed by,n1y hanger than by those heretofore in use for sliding and swinging a gate; neither do I claim substituting iron for wood or other material; but I claim to have been the first to form hangers for gates of half-round iron bars, as described, whereby there is attained a gate-hanger at less cost, more durable, and more convenient to make, and better adapted for use than those heretofore employed.

1 claim-- A gate-hanger constructed oftwobars ofhalfround. iron, in which the rollers are journaled, said bars bent at their ends, as shown and described, and welded together to form pivots for the hanger to turn on, as set forth.

JOSEPH WADLEIGH. 1,. s.]

Witnesses:

D. A. KENYON, WM. 0. O. TUTTLE. 

